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- Will Rogers in Ford Flivver #1 Airplane, 1927 - Popular humorist Will Rogers posed in a Ford Flivver airplane in 1927. The Flivver was Henry Ford's unsuccessful attempt to build a "Model T for the sky," a simple and affordable aircraft that anyone could fly. Rogers, along with aviator Wiley Post, died in an unrelated airplane crash in Alaska in 1935.
- 1927
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Will Rogers in Ford Flivver #1 Airplane, 1927
Popular humorist Will Rogers posed in a Ford Flivver airplane in 1927. The Flivver was Henry Ford's unsuccessful attempt to build a "Model T for the sky," a simple and affordable aircraft that anyone could fly. Rogers, along with aviator Wiley Post, died in an unrelated airplane crash in Alaska in 1935.
- Margaret Love and Kenneth Schwartz with 1928 Ford "Flivver" Monoplane, 1953 -
- 1953
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Margaret Love and Kenneth Schwartz with 1928 Ford "Flivver" Monoplane, 1953
- Harry Brooks with Ford Flivver Airplane #3 at Ford Airport, December 1927 - Test pilot Harry Brooks posed with a Ford Flivver airplane in 1927. The Flivver was Henry Ford's attempt to create a small, affordable airplane that almost anyone could fly -- a Model T for the sky. Three or four prototypes were built, but Ford abandoned the project after Brooks died in a Flivver crash near Melbourne, Florida, in 1928.
- December 14, 1927
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Harry Brooks with Ford Flivver Airplane #3 at Ford Airport, December 1927
Test pilot Harry Brooks posed with a Ford Flivver airplane in 1927. The Flivver was Henry Ford's attempt to create a small, affordable airplane that almost anyone could fly -- a Model T for the sky. Three or four prototypes were built, but Ford abandoned the project after Brooks died in a Flivver crash near Melbourne, Florida, in 1928.
- Will Rogers in Ford Flivver Airplane #1, 1927 - Popular humorist Will Rogers posed in a Ford Flivver airplane in 1927. The Flivver was Henry Ford's unsuccessful attempt to build a "Model T for the sky," a simple and affordable aircraft that anyone could fly. Rogers, along with aviator Wiley Post, died in an unrelated airplane crash in Alaska in 1935.
- 1927
- Collections - Artifact
Will Rogers in Ford Flivver Airplane #1, 1927
Popular humorist Will Rogers posed in a Ford Flivver airplane in 1927. The Flivver was Henry Ford's unsuccessful attempt to build a "Model T for the sky," a simple and affordable aircraft that anyone could fly. Rogers, along with aviator Wiley Post, died in an unrelated airplane crash in Alaska in 1935.
- Ford Flivver Airplane #1 at Ford Airport, April 12, 1927 - This is Ford's Flivver #1, a quick, highly maneuverable plane that created a media buzz when it was demonstrated at the 1926 Ford Reliability Tour. The press called the single-seat plane the "Model T of the air," but it was purely experimental. Ford would never mass produce the Flivver.
- April 12, 1927
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Ford Flivver Airplane #1 at Ford Airport, April 12, 1927
This is Ford's Flivver #1, a quick, highly maneuverable plane that created a media buzz when it was demonstrated at the 1926 Ford Reliability Tour. The press called the single-seat plane the "Model T of the air," but it was purely experimental. Ford would never mass produce the Flivver.
- Ford Flivver Airplane #1, 1926 - Just as he put the world on wheels with the Model T, Henry Ford hoped to give it wings with a small, affordable airplane. Three or four prototype Flivver planes were built, but Ford abandoned the project after his test pilot, Harry Brooks, died in a Flivver crash near Melbourne, Florida, in 1928.
- 1926
- Collections - Artifact
Ford Flivver Airplane #1, 1926
Just as he put the world on wheels with the Model T, Henry Ford hoped to give it wings with a small, affordable airplane. Three or four prototype Flivver planes were built, but Ford abandoned the project after his test pilot, Harry Brooks, died in a Flivver crash near Melbourne, Florida, in 1928.